DENMARK AND KUWEIT SPIED ON BY RCMP

 Image taken from the website of the RCMP.

Something fishy is happening at the building located at 47, Clarence Street, Ottawa.

According to a reliable source, inside the property, an antenna of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police is currently spying on the Danish Embassy and also on the cultural center of the Kuwaiti Embassy. Demark is a country that is part of the European Union, while Kuwait is an emirate that is a member of the Arab League.

The operation has been going on since a few years at least, with the knowledge and help of the owner of the building, a Toronto-based private company that own and operate many buildings in downtown Ottawa, filled with a lot of tenants of all kinds. One of the buildings that belong to that company, located on 181, Queen Street, is the national headquarters of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Société Radio-Canada, whose female president, a political nominee, is well known to color her hair in Liberal Red. The building also house various administrative units of the governement-owned Public Corpration (Radio Canada International, local stations, archives, etc. It is one of the three main installations of CBC-SRC, the others being in Montréal (the main production center for the French-speaking section of the broadcaster -SRC-) and in Toronto (the main production center for the English-speaking part of the broadcaster -CBC-)

The building involved in the spying operation is located on the Byward Market, in the Lower-Town area, a stone throw from the United States Embassy, itself situated not far from the Rideau Canal. Many private and public tenants are located inside the building, with five floors (one underground and four above ground), named Times Square.

Incidentally, that very building used to house the offices of the Ottawa-area only French daily newspaper, LeDroit, before the bankruptcy, a few years ago, of the private company that owned LeDroit, in Ontario, and a few other dailies, in the province of Québec, like LeSoleil (Quebec City), Le Nouvelliste (Trois-Rivières), etc.. The workers cooperative that was formed by the parent company, in order to keep at work the reporters of those newspapers, has its local offices on the north side of the Ottawa River, in Gatineau.

Amond the tenants, there are also four architectural firms. One of them, GRC Architects, is at the north-west corner of the fourth floor. It is directly above another tenant, the cultural center of the Kywait Embassy, located on the 2nd floor, There are no tenant between the two. Also, on the same story, but on the south side of the internal atrium (an empty space that goes from the ground to the ceiling), the Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark is situated. Canada is a member of the Five Eyes alliance of countries, in the matters of intelligence and informations collection, and also a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, just like Denmark.

The firm called GRC Architects is not listed in any local chamber of commerce, whether in Ottawa or in Gatineau, which is quite unusual for a private outfit in a competitive industry. It is not part of the list of members of the Ottawa Board of Trade (Ottawa, English-speaking  businesspeople), nor of the Regroupement des gens d'affaires d'Ottawa (Ottawa, French-speaking businesspeople), nor of the Chambre de commerce de Gatineau (Gatineau, French-speaking companies).

Mail arriving to the firm come in a suspicious fashion. Those pieces of mail come with the right address, but different names. The GRC part of the name of the company is supposed to stand for the first letter of the names of the three founders. The suspicious way is that there two sets of names, not just one, according to the source, located inside the building. One set is made up of three typical French-sounding names, while the other set is made up of three typical English-sounding names. For instance, the first set of itinials start with Graham, while the other start with Giroux. 

Interrogated on that strange discrepancy, one employee of the firm, a French Canadian man, was visibly distraught, and switched immediately to English. He said that he had no comment to make on the matter. When it was mentioned to him that, in Ottawa, most people have no idea that the letters GRC stand for Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC), he left quickly to get back up to his office, with his colleagues coming back from lunch.

Later, an inquiry about those strange happenings, send through the contact email of the website of the architectural firm, received no response. An official complaint was made by the tenant to the owner of the building. A few days after, the source had to leave the building, because of a call from the local manager of the private company that onwn the building to the private company that was hiring the employee, through which this information was obtainted, according to the source of this true story.

Members of the local medias of Gatineau or Ottawa are invited to dig deeper in this story, in order to corrobate it, the source not being employed there anymore, and the writer being unable to do so by himself, for personal reasons.

Spying or murderous events tied to foreign affairs is not new in Ottawa. A Turkish diplomat was assassinated a few years ago, in Ottawa, by Armenian assaillants, on the John A. McDonald parkway, along the Ottawa river, near the Champlain bridge leading to Gatineau. There was also the Gouzenko Affair, just after the Second World War. 

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